Three Revolutionary Initiatives

In order to accomplish its mission the Project has launched three timely, revolutionary initiatives; 1) the FCP Community Building Initiative, 2) the FCP Political Initiative, and 3) the FCP Personal Development and Leadership Initiative. Each of these initiatives has its own unique and specific role in the revolution.  Together these initiates set the Project apart from its predecessors and provide the highly powerful strategy for advancing the cause of liberty.

While there are many people who get pretty worked up about issues such as immigration, the economy, the environment, the Patriot Act, and the wars America is currently fighting, just to illustrate a few of our pressing crises in the modern day,  almost no one knows practically what to do.  All across the globe individuals are waking up to the sense of our awful situation and unlike others, the FreeCapitalist Project,  knows what to do, and through these three initiatives clearly outlines how every single interested citizen can be involved on a daily, weekly and monthly basis actually in changing the general conditions of freedom in America and across the globe.

Some patriots and freedom oriented groups continue to pretend that the task before us is not yet a ‘war.’  But, this is a dangerous and naive position.  The mission to spread freedom, combat its enemies, and complete the political achievement first accomplished by America’s Founders requires more than lip service, more than seminars, and more than shared emotional determination.  It requires a detailed plan the can be understood by average citizens, leaders capable of sticking to the announced strategy in the face of opposition, controversy, and a regular course of difficulty.  It also requires that members of the Revolution have the tools to act with purpose and surety in their own homes, in their communities and when they advocate for larger change.

Loving freedom and wanting to do “something” does not a soldier make in the cause of freedom.  We are at war, and the Project is set apart as an organization with the most specific, clearly defined, easily perceived and understood strategy for actually bringing about the transformation foretold by the Founders themselves.

There is much amiss in our political structures in America, and beyond.  The US Constitution is the divinely inspired model or blueprint for free government across the globe, but while it is given excessive lip service by its ’so-called’ friends, little real attention is given to its meaning and substance—let alone to the work of organizing people into principled governments beginning with the family units, groups of families, small communities, townships/forums, and county councils.  Fewer than one in one hundred people who live everyday under the umbrella of it’s protection today can tell, from memory, how many articles there are in the US Constitution, or name three principles of good government outlined in it, or even name five of the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) along with the individual rights they are designed to protect.

Recently, a member of the FreeCapitalist Council attended an event with a prominent member of the US Congress who was speaking to a group of patriotic citizens wanting to be involved in changing America.  This highly respectable Congressman talked about the need for spreading information and education and encouraged those present to help advocate “spreading the message.”  When approached afterward by the member of our highest council, and being asked, “But, what then?” “What do you suggest the people do after they get involved in spreading information?”  His response was telling.  “I don’t know.”

This has sadly been the case for more than a generation.  In America and beyond those who have the deepest passions for freedom seem locked into the tribal notions which suggest that “change” can only come by electing new political leaders.  Of course, this approach is exactly the mindset that has repeatedly facilitated and persistently challenged the movement of freedom over the last one hundred years.

A missionary, recruiting, [or outreach] program, without an organized body to administer, strategize, teach, implement and lead the body involved in the revolution, is like taking a random group of high school basketball stars and pitting them against the NBA champions.  It is a formula for disaster and those who pretend otherwise are so caught up in aggrandizing themselves that the movement for real transformation has suffered for decades at their hands and the hands of their like-minded predecessors.   To suggest that creating random groups of citizens who are passionate about freedom is an appropriate substitute for a loyal citizens movement, organized effectively and efficiently according to the actual model set out by America’s Founders, is nothing more than disguised mysticism and tribalism.  When asked how they hope to actually restore the Constitution, those who “don’t know” how to organize the revolution have only one answer,  “I don’t know, just somehow.”  When asked how they intend to spread an effective political organization across America and to lovers of freedom in all nations, again their answer amounts to nothing more than a futile “somehow.”  When asked how their followers can really, actually, in day-to-day life, effectively defeat our forces of opposition—the answer is once again to effectively blank out.   These are the Patriotic Sheep of the Brain-off Conspiracy, these are friends who we must reach out to, and of these are friends many will quickly recognize the unique power in the FreeCapitalist Project. — Project Founder, C. Rick Koerber

Mysticism and false hope are not legitimate strategies, nor do they answer the call of those looking for leadership.  The all too common suggesting that our task is limited to electing new leaders is ridiculous.  America’s unimaginable prosperity in the 1800s was not because the Founders set up a government with brilliant leaders who successful made life wonderful for the people.  The opposite is true.  The Founders set up a government that was restricted from being involved in citizens lives in a way that destroyed initiative, agency and innovation. When government and those who serve therein are properly chained, and restricted to the very limited moral functions outlined by the US Constitution, free citizens prosper, and prosper quickly.  This is the story of America.  This is the seed of the American Dream.  This is the source of strength that spreads freedom across the globe.

The economic conditions and the crises of moral ambiguity that we are facing today are both the direct result of government being improperly and unconstitutionally involved in areas the Founders purposefully and deliberately rejected and this has been made possible because, as Yeats so prophetically warned, “the best among us lack conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”  Conviction comes from knowledge, and discipline.  No lover of freedom is helping the cause by emotionally decrying our faults and failures while at the same time blindly advocating for the cause with half thought out ideas and often even worse.

Businessmen and women, free citizens who are entrepreneurs, and patriots who stand up for principle are being demonized and criminalized throughout the country as the government looks like it is going after the “bad guys on Wall Street” or the “fanatics” who are a “threat to their neighbors.”  More laws are making supposed criminals out of capitalists.  This is the history of early 20th century Europe.  This is the history of  America’s sharp turn towards socialism in the mid-twentieth century.  It is all motivated by the very same philosophy that made the last century the bloodiest century in the history of mankind.

So what do we do?

Will going to church save us?  Will studying good books save us?  Will getting together with our friends and discussing our situation save us?  Will supporting the “right” political candidates save us?  No.

While all of these things are essential and necessary to some degree—without the key ingredient which unites all these things into one cohesive whole, our efforts will be for not.   This is why the freedom movements of the 60’s and 70’s failed.  This is why the formerly socialist, Soviet-block countries in Europe are again flirting with these old, but evil ideas.  This is why in America, good men and women have actually started to believe that perhaps the “right form” of socialism is the answer and that capitalism itself is the cause of our present crises.

For all the talk given by patriots, very few have studied sufficiently to know that the Founders actually laid out a very comprehensive plan for our Republic and for others in the nations across the world to follow – if we would build a social structure that permanently secures freedom, liberty, peace and prosperity.  It wasn’t abstract, it was detailed and what even some of our most serious scholars seldom realize is that all of America’s Founders died before the plan was fully implemented.  The secret of our success is that we have a blueprint upon which to build that anticipated, with divine guidance, our present challenge in advance.

Jefferson was probably the most prolific in his writing on the subject of showing us how to guard against tyranny.  He repeatedly suggests and outlines that building specific forms of social / community structures in the spheres of federal, state, county, city, community and family is how free citizens ultimately succeed in protecting themselves form the ever encroaching temptations of tyranny.  Unfortunately even Jefferson realized by the time he was in his old age that the Founders had only succeeded on the Federal level.  He pointed out that they had only begun to succeed on the State level.  By 1820 the vision of extending these “principles of republican” structures down to the counties, cities, communities and families had been almost completely abandoned and Jefferson along with his close friend Adams both lamented that it would be a future generation who would have to finish what they had started.

The FreeCapitalist Project has spent years researching, experimenting, building, re-building, and studying the plan Jefferson and his contemporaries laid out and have now organized the only Project of its kind where through civic service and dedication to the core values at the heart of America’s Revolution – we can, for the first time, successfully organize a statistically significant group of people in American and beyond who can actually finish the Founder’s experiment.

How can the Project succeed? We can succeed by adding the key ingredients usually skipped by virtually all past groups, movements, and community leaders. The core of the Project is our basic membership and as our Pledges, I° Members, and members of the Producer Revolution™ participate in our three core initiatives we can effectively bring together the concepts of both freedom & prosperity.  It is in dividing these concepts that we fail.  It is in separating out man’s individual pursuit of happiness from the equation of social peace and freedom that patriots become fascists and socialists.    Freedom and prosperity are neither contradictory or exclusive, and to succeed our moral revolution must have both at every level of our efforts.  Beware of the voices, who out of feelings of un-earned guilt and inferiority moralize about separating these key concepts.  It is the language of tyrnany that restricts the notion of prosperity to the governors while the governed are expected to be contended with whatever handouts of freedom they might be lucky enough to obtain. We can succeed by persuading our friends to join us, by being seriously and actively engaged in this plan, and by living principle-centered lives as we build relationships with each other and carry out the specific strategies advocated by our councils, carrying out the community service defined in our forums, regularly helping our peers in our Round Tables and weekly contributing to our Study Groups.  The most important thing to remember, however, is that we can indeed, succeed.   To imagine anything less is unthinkable.